fulham
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
Definition of fulham
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, slang)Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”).
““Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!””
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noun
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(UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, slang)Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”).
““Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!””
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(UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, broadly, colloquial)Alternative form of fullam (“sham”).
“As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With fulhams of poetic fiction”
name
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An area in southwestern London, England, on the north side of the River Thames.
“There were only four in the starting XIs as Sunderland were beaten 1-0 by Jol's side – Jack Colback and Adam Johnson for Sunderland and Kieran Richardson and Steve Sidwell for Fulham – but Jol's shrug was one of resignation rather than indifference.”
- A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.
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